QUEEN’S COLLEGE student Jamal Thomas is yet again beneficiary of the Guyana Association of Private Security Organisations’ (GAPSO) 5th annual bursary awards.Held on August 24 last, the award ceremony was in recognition of Thomas’s continued outstanding academic performance since completion of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) exams.

A press statement issued by GAPSO said the QC student became the recipient of the award in 2012 when he wrote the NGSA examinations and secured a space at the country’s leading secondary school. Thomas has since maintained an outstanding academic record, and has also been outstanding in extracurricular activities. He is the son of Milton Thomas of the Bank of Guyana’s Security Department.

In 2012, the bursary award was named in honour of the late Gregory Gaskin, former attorney-at-law and Chairman of COPS (Guyana) Limited, now known as Sentinel Security Services. Gaskin was instrumental in establishing GAPSO.

A beneficiary of this GAPSO award must be a child of a member of GAPSO whose academic performance has been outstanding at the NGSA exams; and once the child’s performance remains satisfactory, that child can continue being a beneficiary of the GAPSO award.